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Build in flute, garnish
Build in flute, garnish
Shake all but sparkling wine and peel; strain to flute; top with wine; express oil.
Build in a flute and garnish with orange peel
Shake, strain, up.
Paul Harrington, Cocktail and Stork Club Bar Book
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
Received a Christmas Present of Ardberg Smoketrails. Very Smoky Flavor !!! My first experiment with this incredible single malt.
Shake with ice and strain into a coupe glass.
While writing up the Gold Drop (Bourbon, Cynar, honey, lemon) for my blog, I was inspired to take the honey, lemon, and amaro trio in a mezcal-Braulio direction given how well that duo worked in La Jetée, Montañista, and other drinks. For a name, I dubbed this one the Golden Eagle after the official bird of Mexico and North America's largest bird of prey.
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
In memory of a Naval Academy graduate.
Stir all the ingredients with ice, then strain into a chilled Nick & Nora glass. Garnish with a cocktail onion.
Ríos mentions specifically using a rice vinegar based brine for the onions. Also, he recommends scaling up and batching for the freezer. Interestingly, for the batch version the amounts of onion brine and pear liqueur are half of what they would be relative to the other ingredients. So it would be only 1 tsp onion brine and 1/2 tsp pear liqueur for the individual serving if keeping proportions of batch version.
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
Watching the Henry Fonda classic, "My Darling Clementine."
Stir; strain; Nick & Nora; express lemon twist; garnish
The juice reduction is store-bought cranberry juice cocktail simmered until reduced by half and cooled.
Created for the December 2024 Reddit Original Cocktail Challenge (Cranberry & brandy).